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Music in 2013 - where are we going?
TOPIC: Music in 2013 - where are we going?
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Music in 2013 - where are we going? 12 Years, 5 Months ago
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Well, for whatever reason the music is less important than it was; either because we tend to lose enthusiasm as we age or through specialisation, the days of tunes having incredible impact (which lasted all our lives) is over.
Today's kids and teens, who used to rank music as their No1 influence, has replaced it with a variety of entertainment areas - from games to online social forums to movies.
There's no point in moaning about it or trying to change the world so those happy, heady days return. It will never be the 60s or 70s again.
As a business - it's different and less lucrative. As a creative art form, it has less impact. As a social essential, it's become non essential.
We kids of the 50s and 60s were dead lucky. Today's youth has different parameters, values, morals, appreciation levels, skills...
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Re:Music in 2013 - where are we going? 12 Years, 5 Months ago
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You're right JK, but I'm sure it's more about "delivery" than "content."
Pound-for-pound, there's probably as much good music being produced as there ever has been, but what's changed is the ability for tracks to "cut-through" to the mainstream, as it's now far to easy for everyone to set their own personal filters to "ignore".
It used to be that everyone knew what the number 1 record was, either through TOTP, broad-appeal radio programming, clubs playing chart pop tracks, even vinyl jukeboxes, all things of the past. Now, no-one knows (or cares) what's number 1, and what's more worrying is that virtually no songs are becoming "future classics" - the last wedding discos I've been to were still utterly reliant on 70s & 80s tracks, with only the odd "Crazy In Love" or "Gangnam Style" to remind us it's the 21st century...
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Re:Music in 2013 - where are we going? 12 Years, 5 Months ago
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Brilliant post from Cambridge graduate.
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Last Edit: 2013/01/12 07:37 By JK2006.
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